DECEMBER 21ST 2012 The most accurate calendar the world has ever seen - the 5,125 year old Mayan long count calendar turns over to Zero. Are we on the brink of APOCALYPSE? In the Highlands of Guatemala an ancient terror rises from the cornfields... In India a renowned physicist calculates not just the end of the world but of time itself, but what did the ancient Maya know that she doesn't?... What secret monstrosity do the pyramids of Costa Rica hide? ...With the planets aligned Mayan Gods gather to end the fourth and final age of man. Severed Press brings you 10 short stories exploring the Mayan 2012 End of Days myth. WHERE WILL YOU BE DECEMBER 21ST 2012?

Life's tough in America. Especially when you're dead. Faraday thought finding a runaway girl would be easy money. But when the girl turns up dead - the first American in decades who hasn't relived as a zombie - Faraday must hit the streets to find her killer. Standing in his way are undead gangbangers, a police force rife with bigotry and lifism, and the zombie crime lord of Harlem. But with the help of a necrophilic pathologist, a severed head named Dorothy, and a reporter that would literally give her right arm for a story, Faraday must discover why the dead girl didn't come back to life. And he better be quick before the animosity between the living and the dead sparks a riot that could burn New York City to the ground. In a country where the afterlife is the same as life before death, can anyone really live at all? Welcome to Dead America. Land of the dead and home of the grave.

In a world of war and mayhem, a twisted nightmare of undead cannibals begins.

The outlaw Neasa Bannan uncovers a horrifying conspiracy engineered by the psychopathic mastermind behind the Confederacy's deadly flesh-hungry weapons. A homicidal gunslinger and a brotherhood of killers emerge out of Neasa's tragic, blood-soaked past while the living dead ravage the land.

With the fate of the country in the balance, Neasa must decide: save the Union from the undead menace, or surrender to Saul's vision of ultra-violence.

In a new world where none can be trusted, Covington's life hangs in the balance. It's a race against time...and the end of the world...because it's not just the living he has to fight against. The dead are rising. Dead men walk the halls below the earth, and the only thing keeping him from being contaminated is his gas mask...and it won't last forever.

For six consecutive years, the serial killer dubbed Cupid has struck, leaving a pair of lovers brutally murdered on February 14 at exactly 7 p.m.

Each year, a man and a woman bound by love would be kidnapped, and two days later, slaughtered in a barbaric ritual that left them entwined for eternity. They would be found in a frozen, gruesome human sculpture that reflected the twisted and tortured mind of Cupid.

Richard Turner, a detective inspector with the metropolitan police has been chasing the shadow of death since the first murder had been committed back in 2006, but he was no closer to ending Cupid’s trail of horror, than he was on day one.

This year however, Cupid made a mistake. This year, he has snatched Tom Wilson and his fiancée Karen Carter. That meant that he would have an extra man hunting him, for Tom Wilson has a friend, a friend you would not want as an enemy. This year, Cupid would need to look over his shoulder, because that man was ex-SAS trooper John Hanson, and he was coming for his friend. He was coming like a train.